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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Happy December IHeart Organizing readers! Did you know, it's the holiday season? And I am in the grateful, thankful and giving mood! Grateful and thankful for YOU specifically! So, I thought I would show you how much I love you and support a few of my absolute favorite companies, by hosting an entire day of incredible giveaways!

That's right! I have handpicked select Items IHeart most, and have been working with my favorite companies, to bring you a day of goodness and oodles of opportunities to win amazing prizes!

Jenna Sue Design Co. carries a line of affordable, personalized prints for the home. They make great custom gifts for any occasion such as weddings, anniversaries, graduations, baby showers and birthdays and holidays—and are perfect every day decor for your nursery, office, kitchen, bedroom or any living space! Featured in West Elm, Apartment Therapy, Young House Love, Starbucks stores nationwide, Jacksonville Magazine and Museum of Modern Art & more.

Whether you are looking to add character to your own walls or give the gift of personalization this season, Jenna Sue has beautiful options for everyone! And today she is here on this special day of giveaways to offer up a $50 credit to her online store!

My husband secretly took a family ruby stone that I had been treasuring for a loong time and put it in a beautiful diamond ring setting and surprised me one Christmas!! It was the best gift ever because it was super thoughtful of him and it was my grandmas ruby stone!!

I recently took a cue from young house love and made my hubs a sentimental birthday gift... he is an eagle scout so i picked out twenty merit badges and "awarded" them to him. i printed out a page with pictures of the badges and then a page with the names of the badge and the reason i thought he earned it. he loved it.

Every year for Christmas my Grandmom gives each of us an ornament to reflect something monumental that has happened in the past year. One particular year she helped me sew a dress that I had designed. That year for Christmas my ornament was a itty-bitty version of the dress that we had made together using the scrap pieces of material. I love it so much I keep it out year round!

Also for all my friends weddings I shoot pictures of the day/weekend of important things to spell out the couples new last name. It's always fun having them guess where each letter came from!

My husband's office gave us the most beautiful, soft, blanket for our daughter when she was born. And it has her name embroidered on it. She's 4 and still uses it to this day. THanks for the chance to win!

In the show Up All Night, the mama wears a necklace with her daughter's name in script font. I didn't realize that I made a comment about how much I liked that necklace until I got one of my own for Christmas :) I love when the hubs listens like that!

It wont let me enter....keeps saying loading everytime I try :(.....we once had a year that we didnt have much going, through a hard time and my hubs went made me a big wooden heart with a poem on it....I still display it every year.....It is really not the material things....everytime I get that heart out it makes me weepy and happy to see how far we have come.....

After my mom passed away I was a wreck at Christmas time. Ever time there was a sappy commercial I totally lost it. The worst one for me was about giving teddy bears to a military charity, because all kids need teddy bears. I can't tell you how many times I sobbed thinking about all those kids without bears. So that Christmas my husband bought me two bears, one for me and one to donate to the charity. That may be the only time in 10 years that he has EVER given me a truly heartfelt gift, but I will never forget it!

I gave my sister a mini Boston Terrier monthly calendar I purchased on Etsy last year. Every month had an adorable Boston illustration to match the season. It was the perfect gift for a graphic designer and Boston lover! :)

My Aunt Gracie created needlepoint pin cushions and little framed initials for me and our children many years ago--I just loved them and they are so dear to me--even more so now that my very special Aunt Gracie has passed on...

My parents house burned down when I was in college. My dad was somehow able to salvage some of my mom's silver. He made each of us a windchime with one place setting of silver and a serving piece. It's a little quirky but it's really special.

The sweetest personalized gift I ever received was a small glass heart ring holder that my brother bought me when I was 10. I still have it in my closet holding my rings. I still bring it out to show him (and to tease him)

The sweetest personalized gift I have ever received was a flight home for Christmas so I could spend time with Family & Friends. It was during a time I was just out of college and couldn't afford to come home. My dad was sick with Cancer and it was hard being away. One of my Aunts sent me the tickets and I couldn't be more thankful to her. Brought me and my mom to tears!

I've already chosen 2 gifts for my husband off of here - the Winnipeg map and a custom drawing of our house. We just bought our first real house (had a condo before) and are blogging our reno adventures...I'd love to have those to add to the gallery wall one day!

When I was in middle school and floppy hats were so popular, my mom and aunts made one with a doily my grandmother made and buttons and pins that belonged to her before she died. I'd never wear it now, but I still keep it!

When my little lady was born, we received a little personalized musical snow globe with an elephant inside (her nursery was done in elephants) by my sister AND my best friend. It was such an awesome, thoughtful gift and we have TWO in her nursery. :-)

I received a my grandmother's dollhouse a few years ago. Everything in the dollhouse was handmade by my great uncle. As a child I was only allowed to stand on a stool, my hands behind my back and just look at all the little trinkets inside this huge three story dollhouse. Now I am way too old to play with it, but someday I look forward to passing it down :)

Someone gave my husband and I a scrapbook with pages for each one month anniversary for our first year of marriage. So on our month-versary we just had to take a picture and add it to the scrapbook. It was so sweet!

One of the first sewing projects I did was for a Christmas gift for my Grandma. I made hanging kitchen towels. There has not been one time since then I have been to her house and they have not been out. It makes me happy knowing she loves them.

I love sewing especially for children so my favorite gifts to give are hand made PJs during christmas and handmade burp cloths for expecting moms. I just think that a handmade gift is more than the itme itself, it is the time and love put into the gift that really shines.

Perfect Giveaway= Jenna Sue + I Heart Organizing!!! Thanks a bunch ladies! My good friend gave a scrapbook from all of my wedding showers at my bachelorette party dinner! I cherish it so much! Also I fixed an old chocolates box up w/ memorabilia from dating my husband (tickets, pictures, notes, etc.)He loved it!

My grandma knitted a blanket for each new grandchild. My mom had my youngest sister almost a year after my grandma had died and was still really missing her. I learned to crochet so I could make a blanket.

Each time we have a baby, my husbands Aunt and daughters make a blanket for them that they can grow into. Not as small stitched one, but one that can be on their beds when they are 5, 8, 12... they love them as do we.

I've been fortunate to receive many sweet, sincere gifts but I think one of my favorites is a silver and turquoise bracelet cuff from my grandmother. It was a gift her 2nd husband and true love bought her on their honeymoon - she gave it to me two months after he passed away, which made it that much more special and sentimental.

Before I even got pregnant with my first child, my husband's grandmother made us a baby quilt. She died before we had our first child, but I will always cherish it. I plan on having it separated into four smaller quilts to pass down to her great-grandchildren.

The sweetest gift that I have received is when my mother game me her wedding band from her marriage to my father. I never knew how much it meant to me until he passed away. One of my most treasured gifts. (Unfortunately it was stolen when my house was broken into), but my far my most fav. gift.

Back when our first born was still really little, my dad gave me two frames. Each was filled with a poem about motherhood with pictures of my little one. My Dad made the inserts himself, chose his favourite pictures to include, it totally melted my heart.

My Dad is a silversmith and each year for Christmas and birthdays he makes me a unique, one of a kind piece of jewelry. I just got married this past August and he made my wedding band. I'll wear it everyday for the rest of my life and I NEVER get tired of telling people that my Dad made it for me, making a special piece of jewelry THAT much more special :)

the sweetest gift i ever got was from my father, after he'd passed away. he bought my sister and i a set of gold plated "12 days of christmas" ornaments. when they showed up on our doorstep some time after he died, my mom, unaware he had bought them herself, hid them until christmas day. my sister and opened our own up that day, and my mom told us the story. it was the hardest, and best christmas ever....

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